House sitting in Jersey City
Field report · updated 2026-07-28 · live corpus
For pet parents · what actually happened
Sits provably completed
161
in the last 12 months · at least 614 since 2017 · each required a chosen sitter
by year (floors): 2023 111 · 2024 143 · 2025 182
Open sits1111 homes
Gapless days362 back-to-back sits · 10 Aug
Only 60 Jersey City listings have resolved inside our measurement window so far — below the 100 we require before publishing a rate; the slot stays empty until the sample is real. Counts carry no such floor. This market does fill — at a pace our 48-hour instrument hasn't yet measured. · How we measure →
Plan your dates in Jersey City
Pick your window. We chain the open sits that hand over cleanly inside it — computed right here, nothing sent anywhere.
The open listings chain into 36 consecutive housed days across 2 back-to-back sits beginning 10 Aug.
10 Aug2 handovers · 36 nights15 Sep
todayopen sits · next 90 days · 48 days with nothing open+90 d
Supply by start month
Stays & pets
Too few open listings here to describe a typical stay length.
Of 11 homes: 6 are dogs-only, 2 cats-only, 3 keep both. Plan around the animals first — they are the job.
dogs only 55%dogs + cats 27%cats only 18%
Common questions
Do house sits actually get filled in Jersey City?
Yes — at least 614 sits have provably completed in Jersey City since 2017, 161 of them ending in the last 12 months. A completion requires a chosen sitter, so every one had at least one real application. These are floors from listing histories, and they cannot be turned into a fill rate: sits that went unfilled leave no trace, so there is no denominator.
Can you live in Jersey City full-time on house sits?
Today's board chains into 36 consecutive housed days across 2 back-to-back sits beginning 10 Aug. That is one bookable itinerary from live listings — it moves daily as sits are taken and posted.
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How these figures are computed
Open sits — live listings with a current or future date window; a home with several windows counts once per window.
Applicants — the count reported on each open listing at last refresh.
Posting lead — days between a listing first appearing and its start date, median across open listings.
Gapless days — the longest bookable run of consecutive covered days assembled from open sits beginning within the next 90 days: no overlaps, each sit starting the day the previous one ends.
Full methodology — how these are measured, and what they cannot say.